Black Elk's Story: Distinguishing Its Lakota Purpose by Julian Rice - 1994-03

University of New Mexico Press. 1994. good. Paperback. ISBN:9780826314970 165 pages; underlining & highlighting throughout; binding solid .

Good. Stated First Edition Softcover ..some underlining and notes

University of New Mexico Press, 1994. Trade paperback. Very Good. In Very Good+ condition.

Univ of New Mexico Pr, January 1994. Trade Paperback. Used - Good. Worn copy, but clean and intact. May have markings that do not obscure the text.

Albequerque, NM, USA: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xvi, 166pp. Pictorial light card covers. 8vo. Sun-faded spine, light chipping to edges and wear to covers, crease to rear. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. pp. xiii, 165. Appears unread; as new. "Black Elk Speaks, the book of John G. Neihardt's interviews with the Lakota visionary, is one of the most successful popularizations of Native American religious thought. Using the original transcripts of the interviews, Rice points beyond Black Elk Speaks to an increased awareness of difference between Christianity and the Lakota spiritual tradition. To understand these differences Black Elk must be cleanly disentangled from Neihardt. Neihardt was a Christian poet with a typological belief in providential progress, culminating in the enlightenment of all peoples in universal love. Black Elk was more complex, at various times using the language of a Lakota traditionalist, a Catholic catechist, or a synthesis of both. Rice argues that Black Elk retained throughout his life the priorities of his original Lakota identity as healer, visionary, and warrior and held to one constant… Read More

Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1994-03-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!